When I was younger, my twenties, it was Halloween. Give me a good scare and a horror flick anytime. Those things make me so happy. Something about the fear, that rush you get in a haunted house. Yes!!!!

These days it’s Christmas! I have kids and to see their joy and smiles in the morning is a blessing. To share the love with friends and family on that day is perfect. Everything changes with Christmas. People are kinder. There’s just a feeling in the air that can’t be duplicated.

When the night closes in and I lay there in bed what to I whisper a thank you for?

There are many things that I find I can easily say but the one the rings most true right now is that I am thankful I was there. That I was able to share in the last moments of my Grandfathers life. I was there to whisper goodbye. I told him I loved him. I held on to him as he eased into a quiet peace that took him away.

Many times we don’t get this moment. We don’t get to tell the ones we care for how much we love them. We wait, always thinking there is a tomorrow. To have the time to share with him and be there is a moment I will forever be thankful for.

Floating.
Lost in the abyss of feeling.
Awash in pure delight.
Perfection.
Not of my creation but of ours.
Nestled together.
That sweet afterglow.
Our bodies intertwined.
Locked.
Hands interweaved.
Breath harsh but evenly matched.
To stay this way.
Capture this moment.
Stay hidden away.
Not to be simply a memory.
To be forever.
To always be.

Closing in on an ending, a year in the journey of life complete. There were so many paths and roads traveled this year. Many positive and full of light. Other roads were darker, with mountainous terrain and darkness. Still each one left me having grown and changed.

I am my journey.

It's taken years to truly understand these words but now I feel them to my core. No choice, no step, no direction other then those I took would lead me to my here and now.

Sure I could wonder. I could imagine the "what if's".

Why?

I would not be the me I love. I could have missed some important thing. I could have not found a lasting moment.

Life doesn't offer multiple choices. We can simply learn from our a...

Where does time go?
The seasons pass, months slip by. Weeks find themselves ending.
Life moves on.
We renew.
We revitalize.
Our souls and spirits find peace and hope in the new future.
A cleansing of sorts.
We are breaking free of the old and find the light of the new.
Happy.
Hopeful.

You are far
When I could have been your star
You listened to people
Who scared you to death, and from my heart
Strange that you were strong enough
To even make a start
But you'll never find
Peace of mind,
'Til you listen to your heart

People
You can never change the way they feel
Better let them do just what they will
For they will
If you let them
Steal your heart from you
People
Will always make a lover feel a fool
But you knew I loved you
We could have shown them all
We should have seen love through

Fooled me with the tears in your eyes
Covered me with kisses and lies
So goodbye
But please don't take my hear...

With all my years of age I should easily answer this question with several responses. Yes I happen to a woman, a mother, a daughter, and a friend. There are many other surfaces to this answer though. I’m a dreamer, a lover of music, a reader, a believer, a writer, a photographer, a sentimental fool…

It’s obvious I could continue this list but is that really who I am or are those just pieces of a whole. Would that be all that I am?

Words. Hobbies. Beliefs.

I tend to think I’m more then just what is seen on the shell. Deep within I’m different. I walk to the beat of the music within me. It’s a smaller and quieter version of what I give to the world.

How do I begin to tell the tale of a life full of twists and turns? The tale of a life full of uncertainty but yet full of a hope and never ending strength.

My younger years were full of trying to fit in, to learn my way. I got lost in the cracks of life. I found myself reaching out for an ear to listen. I was very lucky in finding that person. Life seemed to fall in to line.

More years passed and I found the moments I'd treasure. I found the gifts life would give and grasped them tightly. I continued growing in mind and soul, my spirit happy. It wasn't till recently I found myself recalling life's treasures.

Through these hardships I've faltered but never given up. I have gone...

When I was younger I got in to trouble. Nothing bad mind you but enough that it seemed my folks always caught me. There was sneaking out and being where I wasn’t supposed to be. There were boys and drinking when I had no right to be. These were my times of mischief.

They are also the times in my life I will never forget. I can remember sitting on the sidewalk as the police pulled up scared my friends and I to death after trick or treating at the age of 13. I recall talking to guys on the phone late in to the morning hours with my best friend. There were moments when my parents would drive down the road and see me outside when I shouldn’t have...